SUMMER OFFICIALLY STARTS IN A FEW WEEKS ... AND UNFORTUNATELY ...THAT MEANS MOSQUITO SEASON IS ALSO AROUND THE CORNER. EXPERTS SAY IT'S NOT THE SUN THAT BRINGS THESE PESKY BUGS TO LIFE -- BUT THE RAIN. ERIKA EDWARDS TELLS US WHY. HOW MUCH TIME WILL YOU SPEND SLAPPING -- SWATTING -- AND SPRAYING MOSQUITOES AWAY THIS SUMMER? THE PEST CONTROL COMPANY ORKIN RECENTLY RANKED THE TOP TWENTY MOSQUITO CITIES BASED ON THE NUMBER OF MOSQUITO TREATMENT REQUESTS THEY GOT IN 2013. "IT WAS INTERSETING BECAUSE THAT LIST HAPPENED TO MIRROR IN MANY RESPECTS WITH WHAT WE SAW NATIONALLY WITH RAINFALL TOTALS IN THE US." MORE RAIN MEANS MORE MOSQUITOES -- BECAUSE THE BUGS LIKE TO BREED IN STANDING WATER. AND WHEN EXPERTS STUDIED CASES OF WEST NILE VIRUS -- A POTENTIALLY SEVERE ILLNESS SPREAD BY MOSQUITOES -- THEY FOUND A CERTAIN AREA OF THE COUNTRY TENDS TO HAVE THE MOST CASES. "WE KIND OF SEE ALMOST THE MIDDLE PART OF THE US AS BEING THE HIGHEST RISK AREA, SO FROM TEXAS ALL THE WAY UP INTO THE DAKOTAS WE ACTUALLY SEE REALLY HIGH INCIDENCE OF IT." EXPERTS ARE QUICK TO SAY IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO PREDICT HOW SEVERE WEST NILE SEASON WILL BE ... BUT THEY ARE PREDICTING A NEW VIRUS WILL MAKE AN APPEARANCE WITHIN THE NEXT TWO YEARS. "WITH CHIKUNGUNYA THAT'S ANOTHER ONE THAT'S ALSO A MOSQUITO-BORNE DISEASE THAT MORE THAN LIKELY WILL BE INTRODUCED HERE TO THE US AND WILL BE OUR WEST NILE, PER SE." CHIKUNGUNYA WAS DETECTED IN THE ST. MARTIN IN DECEMBER -- IT WAS THE FIRST TIME IT HAD BEEN FOUND IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE. NOW SEVERAL CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES HAVE REPORTED CASES. YOU CAN LOWER YOUR RISK FOR MOSQUITO BITES BY WEARING A BUG REPELLANT THAT CONTAINS "DEET"... BY STAYING INSIDE DURING DUSK AND DAWN ... BY WEARING LOOSE PANTS AND LONG SLEEVES -- AND BY ELIMINATING ALL AREAS OF STANDING WATER OUTSIDE YOUR HOME. ORKIN SAYS ATLANTA WAS THE WORST CITY FOR MOSQUITOES LAST YEAR. RALEIGH CAME IN FIFTH AND CHARLOTTE CAME IN NINTH.